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Barack Obama, First Kenya-born claimant to the presidency of the United States.

From the U. S. Constitution, Article 2, Section 1:
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

The mother of Barack Hussein Obama Jr. was a 17 year old American when he was born, thus too young to convey American citizenship. His father who was already married, was Kenyan/British. Many of his relatives recalled his birth in Kenya. They have since been told to keep quiet.

He allegedly has a "certificate of live birth" on file in Hawaii, but no one is allowed to examine it. This certificate was routinely issued in Hawaii at that time and did not carry the same meaning as a birth certificate, but merely meant that a baby had been registered as present in Hawaii. Other Obama relatives claim that he was born in two different hospitals in Hawaii, but no one is allowed to examine records at either hospital. Little Barack grew up in Indonesia

To date, over 100 legal cases have been presented in Federal Courts as high as the Supreme Court challenging Mr. Obama's qualification to hold the office of President of the United States. These cases began well before the election when there was still time to stop him before he damaged the country. Many of these cases have been denied with no apparent justification. Other continue, including challenges by active-duty military officers.

The First Amendment of the Constitution guarantees "freedom of the press". Starting during the campaign, Obama found that there just wasn't any room on his press plane for those reporters who were not 100% favorable to his views and opinions. Currently, the Obama administration is trying to revive the Clinton-era "Fairness Doctrine". This would force radio and TV stations who broadcast popular conservative talk shows like Rush Limbaugh to give equal time to left-wing talk shows. Since the latter have no listeners or sponsors, the broadcasters would be forced to drop the right-wing shows.

The Second Amendment of the Constitution guarantees "the right to keep and bear arms". Two bills have been introduced into the House by Obama's colleagues in Illinois (one by Bobby Rush, a former Black Panther) which would require incredibly burdensome registration/regulation/insurance requirements on gun owners (and would provide the federal government with a database to confiscate civilian weapons.) Have you tried to buy a gun or ammunition lately? The guns are all on back order and the ammo shelves are empty.

The Tenth Amendment of the Constitution is the one that warns against the federal government getting too big and interfering with the state's rights to govern themselves. But a centrally managed economy is a key tenet of communism, so we can't have that amendment get in the way.

Obama promised Hope and Change and whatever. I did not vote for him. I recognize bullshit when I see it.
He won, as he ungraciously pointed out. Then he crammed the stimulus bill down our throats before anyone in Congress had a chance to read it and before the public even saw it. He even had it put on the internet in PDF format so that no one could scan it for key words. Very Clever.

He promised openness and honesty in government, and definitely no lobbyists. Then he hired the scum of the earth to populate his administration. Birds of a feather flock together? The crowning touch of chutzpah was placing a tax-cheat, Geithner, as Head of the Treasury so that all of us taxpayers will be paying our taxes to a man who doesn't pay his.

And we Will be paying taxes. The Trillion Dollar stimulus was just the start. The new welfare state will need confiscatory tax rates to support it

Truth, Justice and the American Way... we had a long run but I guess nothing lasts forever. I'll miss you.

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Incompetence, malevolence, or both? or Why Obama’s policies are pink, not green (with a coda on my new favorite section of the U.S. Constitution)

Posted By Roger Kimball On March 5, 2009 @ 7:49 am In Uncategorized

I was having lunch yesterday with a prominent critic of the Spender in Chief, and he raised a possibility that many of us have entertained over the past several weeks: that Obama is simply out of his depth: that he hasn’t a clue about what makes the economy tick and his talk about the “[1] profit-to-earnings ratio” was not a slip of the tongue but a worrisome confirmation of the suspicion that he is an empty suit floundering around in the dark.

We kicked around that possibility for a few minutes: certainly the Obama administration seems like a monument to incompetence. Consider the multiple appointment fiascos. Consider his treatment of Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the country that has been our staunchest ally. Consider, if you can stand it, the economy: That sucking sound–the only palpable trace of the once-mighty U.S. stock market–reminds us what the market makes of Obama’s plans to raise taxes on “the rich,” the middle class, business. It reminds us what the market thinks of his efforts to shove the coal industry into a death spiral with absurd cap-and-trade carbon emissions regulations. And that’s all before breakfast, before he sets about wrecking the U.S. health care industry by turning it, too, over to Washington for ruination.

Yes, we agreed, it certainly looks like incompetence and, judged by its results, is effects, its consequences for this great country, it is incompetence on a breathtaking scale.

And yet, is it only incompetence? Remember, shortly before the election, Obama boasted to his mesmerized supporters that “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Is that not what he has set about doing–with a vengeance?

And here’s where we began talking about another possibility: that Team Obama was deliberately targeting the U.S. economy, deliberately impoverishing millions of Americans, deliberately angering our closest allies while [2] coddling dictators like Putin and his puppet Medvedev and [3] funneling millions to terrorist organizations like Hamas.

Maybe that young person the financial journalist Jim Cramer spoke to was right and “[4] We’ve elected elected a Leninist” whose “agenda is destroying the life savings of millions of Americans”?

The blogger Doug Ross at [5] directorblue (h/t [6] Instapundit) asks a disconcerting question that is on the lips of more and more people these days:

Is President Obama intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees?

Well, is he? Mr. Ross asks us to “Consider that, in the teeth of a devastating recession, Obama has:”

• Raised taxes on small businesses, the engines of entrepreneurship and job growth

• Raised the capital gains tax

• Lied about “tax cuts for 95% of Americans,” offering instead $13 a week, achieved not through tax cuts, but by changing the federal withholding tables!

• Destroyed charitable giving by axing the tax breaks for 26% of all giving (or $81 billion in 2006)

• Proposed a carbon cap-and-trading scheme designed to punish oil [and coal] companies and further tax consumers

Why would Obama inflict these destructive policies while the economy is collapsing? Simple. Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.

And here we have the ’enry ’iggins moment: “By George, I think he’s got it!” “Each step strengthens the role of government in people’s lives.” That’s exactly what Lenin sought to do. In a cheery volume called State and Revolution, for example, Lenin explains how:

And the dictatorship of the proletariat, i.e., the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of suppressing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy, which for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the money-bags, the dictatorship of the proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists.

Lenin, too, wished to “spread the wealth around.” And Obama, like Lenin, has been perfectly frank in recommending that we need to go [7] beyond the “merely formal” rights enunciated in the Constitution in order to “bring about [8] redistributive change” in society.

That’s where Obama’s much heralded–and astronomically expensive–”green” initiatives come in. Only they aren’t really (or are only incidentally) “green,” i.e., concerned with the environment. At bottom, they are pink, i.e., they are political weapons in a socialist battle against “greedy” business interests.

Who, I wonder, was the political genius who saw the advantages of exploiting people’s sentimental gullibility about the environment for partisan profit? We’ve long known that environmentalism, as the philosopher Harvey Mansfield put it, is “school prayer for liberals.” But I wonder whether even Professor Mansfield could have foreseen what a tool pseudo-environmentalism would be for the radical wing of the Democratic party? The inestimable value of a green, that is, a pink, philosophy is that you can never be green enough. And in pursuit of zero-carbon-emissions purity a government can impose crippling sanctions in order to force compliance. And don’t say Obama didn’t warn you: as [9] I and many others pointed out during the campaign, he promised that, if elected, he would do all he could to[10] “bankrupt” the coal industry.

And this brings me to my new favorite section of the Constitution of the United States: Article II, Section 4, “Disqualification”:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

What we need now is some clever legal talent to show how deliberately sabotaging the United States economy counts as Treason, a high Crime, or at least a Misdemeanor. Any takers?